Julia L. Kay is a
painter, printmaker, photographer, muralist and digital artist
who was born and raised in New York City. The summer before
second grade, her family visited San Francisco, and she knew
immediately that she wanted to live in the Bay Area. Before
she was free to move West, however, she needed to see to her
education, so she finger-painted her way up through the grades,
attended the High School of Music and Art in NYC, received
her BA in Photography from Wesleyan University in Connecticut
and did graduate work at the Maryland Institute College of
Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Finally, she came out to California
and settled in sunny West Oakland, where she lived for 12
years before moving to San Francisco.

Julias images of people, plants and animals distorted
through the funhouse mirror of her imagination have been shown
in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, San Francisco, around
the East Bay, and on the internet. Her work has won local
competitions and a mural commission.